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• Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Things In Life, Interesting

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.140, Spectra

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• We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?

  Chris Abani

  Hero, Thinking, Hunting

  Chris Abani (2014). “The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel”, p.91, Penguin

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• There’s a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

  Doug Stanhope

  Night, Years, Roots

  "Doug Stanhope on Alcohol, Politics and Killing Comedy Bootleggers’ Families". Interview with Joel Warner, Peter Mcgraw, www.wired.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.

  Kenny Anderson

  Want, Failing, Turns

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• Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Compassion, Suffering, Different

  "The price of shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.

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• The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.

  Cam Newton

  Swagger, Fields, Type

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• I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

  Dennis Prager

  Smart, Air, Gentleman

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• In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

  Louis Susman

  Sports, League, Prominent

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• The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

  Charles Kennedy

  Thinking, Age, Records

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• I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court.

  Roger Federer

  Love, Sports, Blessed

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• I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Two, Years, Making Love

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• If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Hands, Sides, Serious

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• I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self build and off-grid properties and how it would affect us in terms of lifestyle.

  Andy Griffiths

  Strong, Technology, Self

  Source: www.terrainfirma.co.uk

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• My goals have always been to inspire people to be the best they could be, on and off the field.

  Tyrone Willingham

  People, Goal, Inspire

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.

  Rafael van der Vaart

  Role Models, Roles, Beckham

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• The attitude in terms of how players work both on and off the field has a massive impact on us as coaches but also the performance and how the team does as well.

  Warren Gatland

  Attitude, Team, Player

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Whenever I am on camera or doing anything on mic, I don't have any process at all. I just do it and, when I'm finished, it goes away. There is no process. I wish there were some techniques to it. I just turn it on and off, and then I go home.

  Eddie Murphy

  Home, Wish, Technique

  Source: collider.com

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• Oh, no. I don't think I've ever really subscribed to that view, that you can turn it on and off like a water tap. Um, you know, I think that there's a whole lot that goes into the makeup of an individual that, uh, you just can't simply say, oh, like, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being gay." It's like saying, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being black."

  Michael Steele

  Morning, Gay, Makeup

  "Michael Steele, au revoir" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• If we make sure we stay in a state of conscious alertness for the next synchronicity, our minds stay on the positive and off our fear and doubt.

  James Redfield

  Doubt, Mind, Alertness

  James Redfield (2001). “The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

  David Zucker

  Love, Cameras, Adam

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Blow, Coquette

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Book, Records, Cash

  "'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.

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• When you are playing great, it's wonderful. Because you and your partner just want to go out and go (rubbing hands together) 'Who we got?' and off you go. But when you're playing badly, or your trust is dented, or your self-belief is gone, it's the worst (freaking) week in the world!

  Nick Faldo

  Self, Hands, Together

  "Interview: Nick Faldo on Rory McIlroy, golf's youth revolution and why the Americans struggle at the Ryder Cup". Interview with Joel Beall, www.golfdigest.com. September 22, 2016.

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• Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Stories, Kites

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• In that - and that is my personal view - Singapore delivers the most value, as they think about Formula One as a complete entertainment event, on and off track.

  Martin Sorrell

  Thinking, Views, Track

  Source: www.formula1.com

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